ICICS and GRAND will be co-hosting a talk by Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 3:30 pm in Rm ESB 1013.
Abstract: High-Impact Research strategies could help large and small projects to deepen human understanding of the natural and made worlds, so as to promote sustainable use of natural [...]

ICICS and the Peter Wall Institute co-hosted a free symposium in downtown Vancouver from April 24–25, 2014, with a focus on sustainability technologies that improve our quality of life while protecting the environment. Please see the symposium website for more information.

The ICICS Graduate Scholarships recognize very promising incoming doctoral students who will be supervised by an ICICS member, and whose proposed research aligns with ICICS’ mandate to promote multidisciplinary research among its members and students, and with industry. The ICICS Graduate Affairs Committee has selected the following students to receive [...]

Computer Science doctoral student Dereck Toker is the 2014 recipient of the Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship. The $5,000 annual award is granted to a second-year Masters or PhD student who is supervised by an ICICS member, and who demonstrates excellence in multidisciplinary, application-oriented research. Supervised by Professor Cristina Conati, Dereck is currently working on creating [...]

ICICS and the University-Industry Liaison Office (UILO) have recently negotiated a novel 10-year blanket research agreement between UBC and global wireless device semiconductor company Qualcomm, Inc. Under the agreement, UBC researchers and the University receive research funding for Qualcomm-funded research projects, as well as cash payments for specific patents as they are realized. This prototype [...]

On January 30, 2014, ICICS and UBC’s Biomedical Engineering Program co-hosted the fourth annual Biomedical Engineering Workshop, entitled “Translating Ideas into Practice”. Researchers, industry personnel, health care professionals, and students attending the workshop had the opportunity to learn about biomedical engineering research in BC, meet academic and industry experts, and be introduced to a broad [...]